Polygamy on the Pedernales Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858
In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the ""Wild Ram of Texas,"" Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, befo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, UT :
Utah State University, University Libraries
2006
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432621406719 |
| Summary: | In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the ""Wild Ram of Texas,"" Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murder, had considered moving his followers, who were increasingly unwelcome in the Midwest. He had instructed Wight to take a small band of church members from Wisconsin to establish a Texas colony that would prepare the ground for a mass migration of the membership. Having received these orders directly from Smi-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, maps Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283283465 9786613283467 9780874215328 |
